Showing posts with label may. Show all posts
Showing posts with label may. Show all posts

Friday, 1 May 2026

Here's a Free Month of May Animated Gif...


The gif shows a handlettered May, covered in green hand-drawn leaves, which burst into bloom against a brighter sky in the final frame.
If you'd like to use this "May" gif online.
tap or click here to download.
Credit and links back here are
 never required, but always appreciated


Hello there, and hope this post finds you thriving.

Over here, I seem to have fallen down a rabbit-hole. One in which, creating images for screens instead of print, just like Alice in Wonderland, I suddenly need to do everything in reverse.

The largest possible sizes in print become the smallest possible file sizes for screens, for example.

However, it is *loads* of fun.

Even more importantly, it gives me the chance to share some expressive graphics with you. Like this one, which I hope gives the feeling of "bursting into bloom," which is May at its best in these parts.

(And yes, Southern Hemisphere people, I hear you. Contact me with your thoughts about what *you*'d like to see in an equivalent image, and I'll get onto it).

Will there be more? I hope so...Thanks so much for being here, and...Happy May Day!

More soon.
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Friday, 29 April 2022

*Two* Free May Watercolour Illustrations

Hello there.

Hope you've had a great week. It's that time again, for  an "illustration of the month" freebie.

 Today  I have not one but two free "May" watercolour illustrations for you to use in your posts and projects if you'd like. (With huge thanks to Marion Kimberley-Scott, whose wonderful garden pics and permission to use them as reference, inspired this project).

May in Hand lettering surrounded by a watercolour pink clematis wreath.
Free May wreath illustration
Click, right-click or tap
(depending upon your device) to download and use



The first (above) is a more traditional clematis wreath with the word May inside, and the second (see below) spells out May in clematis branches. I couldn't decide which I liked best, so am offering you both of them.

To download either or both of them, just tap, right-click or click (depending upon your device) on the image you'd like, and download it to use, (in any way that works under my angel policy...Which allows for pretty much anything, except selling files as they are, or claiming copyright, which stays with me). Credit is always appreciated, but never required.


May spelt out in pink clematis leaves and flowers a. blue watercolour sky.

Free May-in- Clematis illustration
Click, right-click or tap
(depending upon your device) to download and use




In any event, hope these graphics help and are useful to you.

And if you'd like more pink floral goodness like this, a set of clematis graphics is now up in my Craftsuprint shop.


Update on May 3rd. The very talented Marion Kimberley-Scott has also given me permission to post a couple of pictures she's taken of this design when made up into a full-sized card. With huge thanks to her, here they are. Obviously, they are her pictures and not for download, but you can click through to see more of her marvellous card makes here.

Make and photo of the Clematis birthday card by Marion Kimberley-Scott, using a design sheet by Clare Walker.

Make and photo of the Clematis birthday card interior by Marion Kimbereley-Scott, using a design sheet by Clare Walker.

Click or tap here to see more of Marion's skills at work, on this design, and others. As a card designer, I really don't know what I would do without her craft and photography skills. Thank you so much Marion :-).
Hope this helps.